Political Companion to Herman Melville

Informationen zum Autor Jason Frank is associate professor of government at Cornell University. He is the author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America and Publius and Political Imaginatio n and coeditor of Vocations of Political Theory . Klappentext Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is neve Zusammenfassung From these analyses emerges a new and challenging portrait of Melville as a political thinker of the first order! one that will establish his importance not only for nineteenth-century American political thought but also for political theory more broadly.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Jason Frank (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Jason (EDT) Frank, Professor Jason (Cornell University) Frank, Jason Frank
• Verlag: OXBOW BOOKS LTD
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.2013
• Thema: Sachbuch; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• EAN: 9780813143873
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-4387-3
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 16.2 x 24 x 3.5 cm
• Serie: Political Companions to Great; Political Companions to Great American Authors; Political Companions to Great
• Themen: Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics